Translated by Alex Niemi (Zephyr Press, paperback)
Publication Date: October 25, 2022
Publisher Marketing: A leading Russian poet scrutinizes the natural world, animals, the icy north, as well as human behavior and the flow of time.
In these concise and sensory poems, Anna Glazova invites us to watch the world unfold — a snow-covered bud, a bee, a swamp, the fur of an animal, an ice hole — as well as the human life cycle as it turns and returns. Glazova is also a photographer, and light, shadow, and darkness filter through these poems; listening is important, too: “put your ear to the ground: the log and the bark beetle / sing as one — they begin.” Glazova came of age during perestroika, moved to Germany as a young woman, and received her doctorate in the U.S. Her poetry is strongly influenced by Paul Celan, whose work she has translated to Russian.
